Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 33

A will is a paper that says who gets a person's things after they die; arguments over wills sometimes split families.

Who acts: will, paper, things, arguments · What happens: be, say, get, die, split · To what, where: paper, things, families · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (will, paper, things, arguments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 will	det
2	will	will	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paper	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 paper	det
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paper	acl:relcl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 things	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 person	case
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gets	obj
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 die	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 die	nsubj
16	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gets	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 arguments	punct
18	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 split	nsubj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 wills	case
20	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 arguments	nmod
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 split	advmod
22	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paper	parataxis
23	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 split	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paper	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a will	a paper		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a paper			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	present		a person's things		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	die	present	things = thing			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	split	present	arguments over wills	families	sometimes property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:33.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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